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Janet Mason is an award-winning creative writer, teacher, and occasional blogger for such places as The Huffington Post. Her book, Tea Leaves, a memoir of mothers and daughters, published by Bella Books in 2012, was chosen by the American Library Association for its 2013 Over the Rainbow List. Tea Leaves also received a Goldie Award. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her novel THEY, a biblical tale of secret genders (Adelaide Books – New York and Lisbon) was featured at the 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair. Adelaide Books also published her novel The Unicorn, The Mystery late in 2020. Her novel Loving Artemis. an endearing tale of revolution, love and marriage was published by Thorned Heart Press in August of 2022. Her novel CINNAMON, a dairy cow's (and her farmer's) path to freedom, was published by Adelaide Books in 2024. Most recently, in 2026, her hybrid memoir The Lens of Eternity: Queer Love from Two Pandemics (focusing on her life and her partner's the year they went to a plant-based diet, as well as on the noted photographer Berenice Abbott and her partner, the art critic Elizabeth McCausland) was published by Wipf and Stock Publishing.

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Nov 5, 2026 ∙ 4 min
Queer Love on display: -- #LGBTQ #plantbased #authorinterview #amreading
I was delighted to find this interview today, published in The Chestnut Hill Local, and wanted to share it with you. New book by Mt. Airy author examines queer love Prolific Mt. Airy author Janet Mason holds a copy of her just-released work, “The Lens of Eternity.” Photo by Barbara J. McPherson Posted Thursday, November 5, 2026 12:00 am by Len Lear Writer Janet Mason, of Mt. Airy, tackles a complex question in her new book, “The Lens of Eternity: Queer Love from Two Pandemics.” How does...
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Oct 31, 2026 ∙ 2 min
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Used to It”--#Boo! #amwriting #lgbt
“We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Used to It” This is a widely used activism slogan that is attributed to the AIDS-action group ACT-UP, which began using it in 1990. The slogan came to mind since we are in the spooky season. I began to wonder why LGBTQ issues are and were so scary to seemingly many people. The answer to me was always that people who are homophobic are insecure. They haven't examined their own issues. As the saying goes, "It takes one to know one." I'm no stranger to homophobia....
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Oct 23, 2026 ∙ 2 min
Cognitive Dissonance--thoughts and actions that don't agree #PlantBased #amreading
I wanted to post a paragraph from my recently published memoir, The Lens of Eternity: Queer Love from Two Pandemics, from Wipf and Stock Publishers. The paragraph is on the subject of cognitive dissonance from a vegan viewpoint. The memoir is about my life in 2020, quarantining with my partner. Despite the devastation of the pandemic, 2020 was an interesting year for us since it was the year we went to a plant-based, vegan diet. In the book, I document the health and ethical reasons. I also...
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